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    A Retrospect of the Year 1898

    Remarkable Uses of Peat

    By Oliver C. Farrington

    Automobiles for Fifth Avenue

    A Convertible Vehicle

    An Improvement in Clay-Cutting Tables

    An Automatic Acetylene-Apparatus

    The Giant Wheel of Paris

    The New East River Bridge

    The Armed Forces of the World

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      Correspondence - January 7, 1899

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      Recently Patented Inventions - January 7, 1899

    • Index of Inventions - January 7, 1899

    • Business and Personal - January 7, 1899

    • Notes and Queries - January 7, 1899

    • Patents - January 7, 1899

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    January 07, 1899

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